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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: Re; Ergativity
> Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
> > Are 'deer' and 'choir' supposed to rhyme in that?
>
> Good question. Almost all the corresponding rhymes in the stanzas
> are off (at least in my pron.) but look similar, suggesting that they
> rhymed in ME or EModE: grown/crown, flower/Saviour, blood/good,
> thorn/morn, gall/all. For me these are [grown kr\aun 'flau@r 'Saivj@r
> blVd gUd TO\rn mO\rn gOl Ol]. So only the last two pairs still rhyme.
>
> So probably yes, though for me they are [dir \kwaIr\].
I doubt it. Sun and Organ don't rhyme there, so why should deer and choir?
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